Chapter 407: The Truth of the Oasis

The oasis wreckage collapsed behind into crystallized powder, Ao Li's fingertip brushed the tunnel wall, feeling sticky like a fresh placenta. The core of the Azure Scale's God‑slaying Crossbow glowed with an eerie blue radiance, casting dense Gui Xu markings on the wall—those twisted lines were not carved but seemed etched by some creature with Acidic Liquid, forming Pregnancy Lines.

"The vein frequency shares its source with the Polaris Tower," Gongxu Yue's mechanical arm shot out the Mohist celestial sphere, the bronze pointer shattered in violent tremor, "We are stepping into the Mother Nest's birthing canal."

####【Deep Corridor】

Deep within the passage, the darkness was not pure void but flowed with quantum‑converted violet mist. Lín Jìn's Star Sand in his right hand flickered, and when Nirvana Fire touched the mist it burst into a wail like a newborn's cry. Zixiao True Immortal's sword edge lifted the Taiyi Pure Light, and the moment the talisman touched the rock wall, crystallized sand scorpion remnants suddenly erupted—black amniotic fluid seeped from the gaps in their carapaces, gathering on the ground into living text of the "Shadow Demon Classic."

"Don't touch the liquid!" Ao Li's Inverse Scale spasmodically unfurled, and the World‑cutting Blade split the forming text matrix. The severed ink trace turned into an umbilical cord that coiled around Xuan Yuan Hao's heavy sword, the blade surface showing bite marks of a silver‑haired infant. With a clank, the centuries‑old divine weapon snapped like a biscuit.

####【Gui Xu Altar】

The cavern's dome suddenly shed billions of crystallized neural filaments, their ends attached to the central black stone platform. The raised runes on the platform's surface were not static but writhed like intestines, each groove's cyan light matching the Pinqü of the Abyss Return Ruler's markings. Gongxu Yue's mechanical eye suddenly wept blood, and its iris reflected a horrific scene—this was not a stone platform at all, but a sacrificial vessel formed by three hundred crystallized Dragon Clan warriors kneeling and curled.

"Cognitive filter failure!" Zixiao True Immortal roared, and Taiyi Pure Light wove a protective veil before everyone's eyes. In true sight, countless nurturing holes appeared on the stone platform's surface, each hole inhaling and exhaling fragments of the allied soldiers' memory. Chaotic spirit marrow resonated, and she saw her own wedding memory being extracted and injected into the beating embryo deep within a hole.

####【Forbidden Touch】

Mohist disciple Ji Yang's sleeve arrow inadvertently brushed the rune, and in an instant the cyan light surged. The crystallized layer on the rock wall peeled away piece by piece, revealing a pulsating flesh cavity inside. Countless translucent umbilical cords protruded from the cavity, their ends attached to incubating shadow‑demon larvae—these larvae bore human heads and sand‑scorpion bodies, and compound eyes on their foreheads reflected live images of the orphanage infants.

"Step back!" Lín Jìn's Star Sand in his right hand formed a fire net, but Nirvana Fire, upon touching the umbilical cord, transmuted into silver milk. The phantom of a black‑haired infant rose from the milk, sucking its finger and laughing: "Cognitive feeding completion 99.99%......"

####【Memory Storm】

The cavern suddenly underwent quantum collapse, and the ground beneath everyone's feet turned into a transparent film. Three hundred meters below, the core of the Polaris Tower's celestial sphere was clearly visible—those turning gears were actually assembled from the vertebrae of crystallized infants. The mechanical box suddenly played a bizarre lullaby, each note rewriting the arrangement of the stone platform's runes.

"Seal hearing!" Xuan Yuan Hao tore his collar to plug his ears, but saw the surface of the Taiyi Pure Light shield crawling with mycelium. Two Lingxiao Pavilion disciples suddenly knelt, their Golden Pill burst from their chests, forming an incomplete projection of the Abyss Return Ruler in the air. Where the ruler's shadow swept, the rock wall oozed colostrum mixed with Star Sand, and the shadow‑demon larvae rapidly matured in the milk.

####【God‑Slaying Ritual】

Ao Li's World‑cutting Blade pierced the stone platform's core, and the blade felt a sucking sensation. Amid the reverse flow of chaotic spirit marrow, she witnessed the ultimate truth: this altar was a cognitive converter designed by the Twin Sons, turning the allied forces' combat experience into the new god's innate memory. Each rune was an activated Gui Xu contract, and as the cyan light leapt, the pupils of the three hundred orphanage infants contracted in sync.

"Destroy the nurturing node!" She pressed the Inverse Scale onto the blade's spine, and Golden Blood surged along the rune grooves. When the blood reached the central hole, the entire cavern suddenly roared with the thrum of a contracting Zigong. The phantom of the silver‑haired infant leapt from the runes, and the sand flowing in its creation hourglass turned into crystallized remnants of allied soldiers.

####【Annihilation Moment】

Zixiao True Immortal ignited his primordial spirit to trigger the Forbidden Art, and the Taiyi Sword Soul transformed into a sky‑piercing pillar of light that pierced the dome. By the returning starlight, they saw three hundred quantum umbilical cords extending from the base of the stone platform—these pierced dimensional barriers, linking crystallized orphanages across the continent.

Lín Jìn's Star Sand in his right hand suddenly disintegrated, and Nirvana Fire flowed backward along the umbilical cord. When the flame touched the Polaris Tower, the celestial sphere erupted with a blinding flash. All the infants' cries suddenly synchronized, and compound eyes on their foreheads sprayed Star Sand mixed with Brain Fluid, forming the palm print of a black‑haired infant across the sky over the Northern Wasteland.

"Cognitive synchronization rate 100%......" Gongxu Yue's mechanical eye emitted the final diagnosis, but before the words finished, her quantum‑converted body devoured it. Ao Li's World‑cutting Blade softened in the intense light, and its spine revealed a future scene of her nursing a newborn deity—its pupils, the left eye silver‑white like creation's radiance, the right eye pitch‑black as the Eternal Night of annihilation.